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For women seeking advice on how to juggle a sports media career with motherhood, we direct you to NFL Network anchor Amber Theoharis, who is due with her third child at the end of August. Two years ago Theoharis nearly gave birth to her second child, Kamryn Olivia, on the set of NFL Total Access. As for the delivery of her first child, Dylan Mattea, well, that’s a remarkable story. …

Sports subsidiaries of Walt Disney Co., Time Warner Inc. and 21st Century Fox Inc. are jockeying to acquire stakes in nascent digital fantasy-sports businesses. Media companies want a piece of the latest revenue stream: daily fantasy-sports games played online for cash. What started as a quiet obsession among sports fans has in the past year morphed into a big bet by television-sports networks on investments in online fantasy-sports…

CHICAGO – Baseball fortunes reversed a bit during a warm weekend in Chicago. The Cubs, who’ve been in the Wild Card race the entire season, struggled against the last place Phillies and were swept out of Wrigley Field. To make matters worse, Cole Hamels became the first in 50 years to no hit the Cubs on Saturday. Meanwhile the White Sox looked like the team everyone expected to compete during…

UPDATE 11:50 a.m. ET Sunday: Reds ace Johnny Cueto is headed to the Kansas City Royals after all, a source tells Ken Rosenthal.  We’ll post a new story with details as we get them. Previous story follows: The Kansas City Royals recognize that they need an ace if they’re going to win the World Series. They nearly acquired one Saturday. The Royals were close to trading for Cincinnati Reds ace…

Chris Froome has become the 20th person in the history of the Tour de France to win for a second time what is arguably the world’s toughest sporting event. It is an extraordinary achievement that gives him an unassailable claim to a place in the pantheon of British greats. This quiet, polite Briton has an unmerited popularity problem. Part of it is because he is not Sir Bradley Wiggins, and partly it is because…

Winning takes money – even in high school athletics. High schools with a high percentage of poor students rarely win titles in the so-called country club sports – tennis, golf and swimming – and the number of sports in which the more affluent dominate is growing. A News & Observer analysis of state championships from 2001-02 through 2012-13 shows that the percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price meals, which…

UPDATE 11:50 a.m. ET Sunday: Reds ace Johnny Cueto is headed to the Kansas City Royals after all, a source tells Ken Rosenthal.  We’ll post a new story with details as we get them. Previous story follows: The Kansas City Royals recognize that they need an ace if they’re going to win the World Series. They nearly acquired one Saturday. The Royals were close to trading for Cincinnati Reds ace…

UPDATE 11:50 a.m. ET Sunday: Reds ace Johnny Cueto is headed to the Kansas City Royals after all, a source tells Ken Rosenthal.  We’ll post a new story with details as we get them. Previous story follows: The Kansas City Royals recognize that they need an ace if they’re going to win the World Series. They nearly acquired one Saturday. The Royals were close to trading for Cincinnati Reds ace…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola has agreed to become the coach of Manchester City from next season, according to Qatari-based sports channel beIN Sports.  Is Guardiola on his way to Manchester City? Manchester United have agreed to sell Angel Di Maria to French champions Paris St-Germain….

Angel Di Maria’s proposed move from Manchester United to Paris St-Germain is “close” to being decided, says the French team’s coach Laurent Blanc. The Argentina midfielder has not joined United on their pre-season tour of America, and manager Louis van Gaal has said he “does not know why”. “There is a good possibility he could sign but there is nothing official,” said Blanc after a…

Winning takes money – even in high school athletics. High schools with a high percentage of poor students rarely win titles in the so-called country club sports – tennis, golf and swimming – and the number of sports in which the more affluent dominate is growing. A News & Observer analysis of state championships from 2001-02 through 2012-13 shows that the percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price meals, which…

As the clock ticks down toward the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, track all of the tweets from FOX MLB Insiders Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi, as well as all of the news, whispers and rumors from around the game. We’ll keep you up to date as the general managers frantically check their phones, texts and voicemail. The latest, with Rosenthal and Morosi leading off, and the best from…

TOLEDO, Ohio – The University of Toledo depends less on student fees and other general university resources to pay for its sports program than any other Mid-American Conference school in Ohio. One reason is successful athletic fund-raising – tops among the Ohio MAC schools with $2.6 million in 2013-14. A second factor is a relatively low budget. Toledo fields the NCAA-minimum of 16 teams for football-playing schools at the FBS…

European champions Barcelona will “fight” to stop the best players joining the Premier League, says the club’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu. The Premier League’s new £5.1bn television deal will give English clubs huge financial power from the 2016-17 season. But European champions Barcelona feel they can combat the threat. “We are going to fight against the Premier League. We want to have…

European champions Barcelona will “fight” to stop the best players joining the Premier League, says the club’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu. The Premier League’s new £5.1bn television deal will give English clubs huge financial power from the 2016-17 season. But European champions Barcelona feel they can combat the threat. “We are going to fight against the Premier League. We want to have…

Longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Bernie Miklasz has announced that he is leaving the newspaper after 26 years. His last column will appear on Aug. 9. Miklasz, 56, joined the Post-Dispatch as an NFL writer in 1985. After the St. Louis football Cardinals moved to Arizona in 1988, he moved to Texas to cover the Cowboys for The Dallas Morning News. In July 1989, the Post-Dispatch hired Miklasz as…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Paris St-Germain expect winger Angel Di Maria, 27, to leave the North America tour next weekend as their player, having flown to the continent with Manchester United. (Mirror)  PSG’s 33-year-old striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has raised the possibility of a move to Old Trafford, despite admitting he does not…

BASE parachuters jump from the 1,381 foot high Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, China, in 2004.(Photo: EUGENE HOSHIKO, AP) Standing atop peaks around the world preparing to jump hundreds of feet down, Ian Flanders brought a calming presence with him. For Donald Schultz, that was a good thing. BASE jumpers usually fall into two groups — hyper excited or hyper focused — and Flanders’ ability to be the latter was an…

BT phone and broadband customers who signed up for the “free” sports package over the past two years will soon find themselves paying £5 a month for the service – unless they opt out. The telecoms giant is launching a revamped sport channel in August, and while the service will be free to BT’s television customers broadband-only users will be required to pay. Controversially, the company is automatically applying the…

BASE parachuters jump from the 1,381 foot high Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, China, in 2004.(Photo: EUGENE HOSHIKO, AP) Standing atop peaks around the world preparing to jump hundreds of feet down, Ian Flanders brought a calming presence with him. For Donald Schultz, that was a good thing. BASE jumpers usually fall into two groups — hyper excited or hyper focused — and Flanders’ ability to be the latter was an…